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I n the early 1950s, Brooklyn Dodgers owner Walter O’Malley looked into his crystal ball and saw a future in which sports organizations would be run by professionally trained business and marketing managers. O’Malley and Clifford Brown...

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T he phrase "competitive balance" became part of the lexicon of Major League Baseball in
the several months of negotiations leading up to last summer's signing of a new basic agreement. With the NHL collective-bargaining negotiations next
in line following the 2003-04 season, many analyst ...

In his column, [ As Winston departs, here's who NASCAR's new best Bud should be," March 24] Mel Poole explores why he feels NASCAR's
new partner will be Anheuser-Busch — namely for monetary potential and current deals between the two factions.
If NASCAR has a choice, the next title ...

E ver wonder what the sports world will look like after what is expected to be a Supreme
Court repudiation of affirmative action through the consideration of race in college admissions policies?
Indubitably, court pronouncements on highly controversial and socially divisive
issues almos ...

T he NFL's new committee on workplace diversity seemed poised to discipline the Detroit Lions
for a violation of its guidelines on minority hiring practices. But the NFL owners meeting in March produced no consensus, and no action was taken.
The league's diversity policy is commendable, ...

E very year companies spend hundreds of millions of dollars entertaining
customers at sporting and entertainment events. As well they should. Few opportunities can rival the atmosphere of sitting in "the good seats" at the
game.
Intrinsically we know the personal bonds created ent ...

T he Masters golf tournament always proceeds amid people holding signs,
but in the past, those signs have been wielded by folks looking for tickets. The edition that tees off next week will be surrounded by different, angrier
placards, insisting that the event's Augusta National Golf Cl ...

T he sports media are having a field day writing about the supposed
glut of teams for sale on the market.
Some writers — seemingly alarmed that the Dodgers and Angels
didn't sell within two months — are now claiming that the decades-long sports
boom is over. A more caut ...